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Re: saving variables between calls to a procedure? [message #31609 is a reply to message #31608]

Wed, 31 July 2002 15:14

Mark Hadfield
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"Reimar Bauer" <R.Bauer(no spam)@fz-juelich.de> wrote in message
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> Shawn wrote:
>
>> ...It actually just occured to me that I might declare a common
>> block which is actually not shared with any other procedure, then I
>> would be able to avoid mistakenly using the variable in that
>> procedure in a way that I did not intend to use it. Is it possible
>> to do this, declare a common block, but not use it in any other
>> procedure, and will IDL remember the variables if the common block
>> is not used in any other procedure?

Yes. Make sure you give it a name that won't clash with anything else,
eg "my_procedure_common"

> I don't like common blocks too. Most times I am using parameters as
> variable or structure or pointer. It depends on what's the routine
> should do.

I don't "like" common blocks either but what on earth is wrong with
using one here?

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Mark Hadfield "Ka puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

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		Re: saving variables between calls to a procedure? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Fri, 02 August 2002 07:33
		Re: saving variables between calls to a procedure? By: David Fanning on Thu, 01 August 2002 12:13
		Re: saving variables between calls to a procedure? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 01 August 2002 11:38
		Re: saving variables between calls to a procedure? By: JD Smith on Thu, 01 August 2002 11:04
		Re: saving variables between calls to a procedure? By: JD Smith on Thu, 01 August 2002 10:59
		Re: saving variables between calls to a procedure? By: David Fanning on Thu, 01 August 2002 08:03
		Re: saving variables between calls to a procedure? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 01 August 2002 07:45
		Re: saving variables between calls to a procedure? By: Reimar Bauer on Thu, 01 August 2002 01:32
		Re: saving variables between calls to a procedure? By: David Fanning on Wed, 31 July 2002 21:13
		Re: saving variables between calls to a procedure? By: JD Smith on Wed, 31 July 2002 18:38
		Re: saving variables between calls to a procedure? By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 31 July 2002 16:12
		Re: saving variables between calls to a procedure? By: David Fanning on Wed, 31 July 2002 15:28
		Re: saving variables between calls to a procedure? By: David Fanning on Wed, 31 July 2002 15:26
		Re: saving variables between calls to a procedure? By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 31 July 2002 15:14
		Re: saving variables between calls to a procedure? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 31 July 2002 14:43
		Re: saving variables between calls to a procedure? By: Reimar Bauer on Wed, 31 July 2002 12:08

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